Look what I found!

[Azrael 5]

James Randi


"Certain perceptions have been given me and I have improved them by a deep study of the science of metal telepathy and clairvoyance."
Toronto Evening Telegram, 28th August 1950
"He first became aware that he possessed Extra Sensory Perception when he was nine years old. He used to answer the phone just before it rang, because he sensed that someone was dialling his number. "I still sense when the phone is going to ring", he says, "But now I wait with my hands on it until it does ring." Toronto Evening Telegram, 14th August 1950

Ironically from here:http://www.zem.demon.co.uk/ A site about Uri Gellar.I assume Randi will be taking his own challenge?
Its in section Performers Claims

 

[case sensitive]

"I still sense when the phone is going to ring", he says, "But now I wait with my hands on it until it does ring." Toronto Evening Telegram, 14th August 1950

Sensing when the phone is going to ring - a million dollar
Waiting with hand on the phone until it rings - Priceless

 

[Ducky]

Wonder if Randi even knows about this...

Someone should email it to him.

 

[Z]

... or call him with it. He'll know faster, that way.

 

[case sensitive]

What is Randis e-mail address again?

amazingrandi@powerfulpsychics.com or has he changed it again?

 

[Steve Knight]

The newspaper article in which Randi makes those statements is reprinted in Randi's "The Truth About Uri Geller". He has since of course divorced himself from such claims but I included it in the "magicians' claims" section in order to show how many magicians have been happy to imply that they are the real thing when it suits them. One of Randi's magical heros, Joseph Dunninger, actually believed in and publicly promoted the exisitence of telepathy (his statements to that effect appear on the same page).

 

[Luke T.]

Sensing when the phone is going to ring - a million dollar
Waiting with hand on the phone until it rings - Priceless

I don't know how to find the smilies on here anymore, but if I did, I would have posted a hand-clapping smilie. I do know the Vbb code for this, though:

 

[Darat]

In "Quick Reply" click on:

In the other editors click on:

or the smilie list at the side.

 

[rharbers]

If you answered the phone before it rang, then you would never make the connection. So how could you prove that someone was calling?

 

[Starthinker]

If you answered the phone before it rang, then you would never make the connection. So how could you prove that someone was calling?

You can answer a call before it rings, at least here in the US. You need split second timing but it happens from time to time, mostly by accident. It's happened to me twice.

 

[Zep]

My view on the situation is th....


Dang - phone's ringing. Don't go away....